The Island Of Faith

There is a certain section of New York that is bounded upon the north byFourteenth Street upon the south by Delancy. Folk who dwell in it seldom strayfarther we... » 

There is a certain section of New York that is bounded upon the north byFourteenth Street upon the south by Delancy. Folk who dwell in it seldom strayfarther west than the Bowery rarely cross the river that flows sluggishly onits eastern border. They live their lives out with something that might betermed a feverish stolidity in the dim crowded flats and upon the throngedstreets. To the people who have homes on Central Park West to the frail wingedmoths who flutter up and down Broadway this section does not exist. Its poorare not the picturesque poor of the citys Latin quarter its criminals seldomwin to the notoriety of a front page and inchhigh headlines it almost neverproduces a genius for the world to smile upon its talent does not often breakaway from the undefined but none the less certain limits of the district. «